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number of starters -shall be reduced to less than eight, the 

 ordinary distance shall be restored. 



Sec. 2. All horses whose heads have not reached the 

 distance-stand as soon as the leading horse arrives at the 

 winning-post shall ba declared distanced, except in cases 

 otherwise provided for, or the punishment of the leading 

 horse by setting him back for running, when it shall be 

 left to the discretion of the Judges. [See Rule i6, Sec. 

 4; Rule 29, Sec. 1; Rule 35, Sec. 2; and Rule 40, Sec 2.] 



Sec. 3. A distanced horse is out of the race, and if in 

 any heat one horse shall distance all competitors, the race 

 will then be completed, and the winner shall be entitled 

 to the entire purse and stakes contended for, unless oth- 

 erwise stipulated in the published conditions of the race. 

 [See Rule s^, Sections i and 3.] 



Rule 38. — Rank Between Distanced Horses. 



Section i. Horses distanced in the first heat of the 

 race shall be equal, but horses that are distanced in any 

 subsequent heat shall rank as to each other in the order 

 of the positions to which they were entitled at the start 

 of the heat in which they were distanced. 



Rule 39. — Time and its Record. 



Section i. In every public race the time of each heat 

 shall be accurately taken and placed in the record, and 

 upon the decision of each heat the time thereof shall be 

 publicly announced by the Judges, except as provided in 

 in these rules concerning those heats which are not 

 awarded to either of the leading horses. 



Sec. 2. It shall be the duty of the Judges of the race 

 to take the time as aforesaid, or to appoint some suitable 

 person or persons to assist them in that respect, and no 

 unofficial timing shall be announced or admitted to the 

 record, but in any case in,volving alleged -suppression of 

 time, or false announcement of time, nothing in this rule 

 shall be construed to limit the Board of Review as to the 

 evidence admissible. 



Sec. 3. In any case of alleged error in the record, 



